Chatting this week to a producer of #peatfree compost I gained an insight which I feel that I should already have had but anyway I thought I would share it in case like me, others missed its significance. The peat that has been used widely in the horticultural industry comes from bogs where it has lain already decomposed for millennia. It's brilliant for making compost because it has a good structure, is inert and mostly weed and pathogen free

I thought that I would write a thread about something I know nothing about. Moles. A number of times this spring I have seen pictures of dead moles that have been trapped and killed in pastures. I have learned that the need to control them comes from the fact that the mole hills can damage farm machinery and that the soil can contaminate silage with listeria which is a danger to livestock. They probably don't seem so cute and cuddly when you are the one that has to deal with that